Tag Archive for ‘Nalaka Gunawardene’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Nalaka Gunawardene'

Call for Papers: Infrastructure Regulation: What works, Why, and How do we know?
Deadline: 05 December 2008.

LIRNEasia researcher contributes to two regional publications

on December 21, 2007

Two publications, with chapters by LIRNEasia researcher Chanuka Wattegama, were launched during the GK3, third global Knowledge conferences held in Kuala Lumpur in December, 2007.

The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) in Asia Pacific. The third edition (2007/2008) covers 31 countries and economies, including North Korea for the first time. Each country chapter presents key ICT policies, applications and initiatives for national development. In addition, five thematic chapters provide a synthesis of some of the key issues in ICT4D in the region, including mobile and wireless technologies, risk communication, intellectual property regimes and localization.

Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book, co-published by TVE Asia Pacific and the UNDP, brings together 21…

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Tags: Arthur C. Clarke, Asia, Asia-Pacific, Chanuka Wattegama, communication technologies, communications disasters, Frederick Noronha, Indian Ocean, Kuala Lumpur, Nalaka Gunawardene, North Korea, the Indian Ocean tsunami, the third anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami of De, wireless technologies.

Documentary film highlights telephone revolution in Asia’s emerging markets

Nirmali Sivapragasam

on December 6, 2007

A new documentary film, titled Teleuse@BOP, recently produced by TVE Asia Pacific (TVEAP) and based on LIRNEasia’s study on Teleuse at the Bottom of the Pyramid, highlights a communication revolution happening in Asia’s emerging telecommunication markets.

When it comes to using phones, the film says, people at the bottom of the income pyramid are no different from anyone else; they value the enhanced personal security, including emergency communications, and social networking benefits. Increasingly, poor people are not content with just using public phones or shared access phones (belonging friends or family). They see a utility and social value of having their own phones.

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Tags: ACNielsen, Asia, Ayesha Zainudeen, Canada, Canada\'s International Development Research Centre, cellular telephone, Dialog Telekom, emergency communications, Emerging Technologies, Global Knowledge Partnership, Harsha de Silva, India, International Development Research Centre, Kuala Lumpur, LIRNEasia Lead, Malaysia, Nalaka Gunawardene, Pakistan, Philippines, social networking benefits, Sri Lanka, telephone use, Thailand, TVE Asia Pacific, youth enterprise.

Bridging the “last mile”

Rohan Samarajiva

on November 13, 2006

LIRNEasia HazInfo project partner Nalaka Gunawardene has written an excellent piece on ICTs and disasters, referring in some detail to the ongoing HazInfo project.

Bridging the long ‘last mile’ in Sri Lanka / 2006/4 / Media Development / Publications / Home - World Association for Christian Communication

While the countries of South and Southeast Asia were largely unprepared to act on the tsunami, it was not really a complete surprise. As the killer waves originating from the ocean near Indonesia’s Sumatra Island radiated across the Indian Ocean at the speed of a jetliner, the alert about the impending tsunami moved through the Internet at the speed of light. Scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) in Hawaii, who had detected the extraordinary seismic activity, issued a…

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Tags: Hawaii, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Nalaka Gunawardene, Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, SouthEast Asia, Sri Lanka, Sumatra island, Thailand, World Association for Christian Communication.

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